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Stefan Sperl's research area includes classical and modern Arabic literature, comparative literature, Qur’an and Hadith studies, Islamic art, Sufism and Neoplatonism, and refugee and exile studies.

Corporate finance and governance, comparative economics, integrated modelling, business management and Chinese economy

Nineteenth and twentieth century social and intellectual history, particularly of the Bombay Presidency; communalism and nationalism in India; debates around secularism and religious intolerance.

Painting in Africa and the Americas; theory of art with special reference to Northeastern Africa

Lynn Welchman is Professor of Law with particular reference to the Middle East and North Africa.

Historical, analytical, ethnographic and cognitive approaches to music of South Asia; music, cognition and language.

Korean language and linguistics, especially morpho-syntax and linguistic typology; structure and history of Korean language; Korean language teaching and translation; modern Korean literature

Louis Brenner is Emeritus Professor of the History of Religion in Africa at SOAS.

Middle East: states and ideologies, war, Islamic political thought